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Important Australian and International Fine Art - 20 September 2017  |  Sydney

Lot 37
Dorrit Black
(1891 – 1951)
THE STRING QUARTETTE, c.1935

colour linocut on thin oriental wove paper

15.0 x 24.0 cm



Estimate:
$15,000 – 20,000


Lot sold: $48,800 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Dorrit Black
(1891 – 1951)
THE STRING QUARTETTE, c.1935

colour linocut on thin oriental wove paper

15.0 x 24.0 cm

signed, numbered, and inscribed with title below image

Provenance

The Estate of Edith Lawrence
Tennants, United Kingdom, 25 March 2017, lot 747
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

British Lino Cuts, Ward Gallery, London, 10 June – 8 July 1936, cat. 19 (another example)
Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 7 – 23 July 1938, cat. 40 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

Literature

North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, p. 204 (illus., another example)